The Marshals Service said Tata was “captured” Saturday in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, by Interpol and U.S Department of State Diplomatic Security agents.

Fulton County Sheriff’s Department officials said Tata, 22, waived extradition to Texas during a hearing this morning before a magistrate judge. She is waiting for Texas authorities to pick her up and transport her to Harris County, officials said.

Officials have said Tata, 22, left seven children unattended and oil cooking on the stove while she shopped at Target. She fled to Nigeria before being charged in the case.

Jessica Tata had been on the Marshals Service’s most-wanted list. The service declined to comment on the case.

Her brother, Ron Tata, said Jessica Tata had turned herself in to authorities in Nigeria Saturday.

His relatives in Nigeria said workers at the U.S. Consulate in Lagos traveled to Port Harcourt to take her into custody, Ron Tata said.

But in a statement today, the Marshal's Service said that two Lagos-based Interpol agents had been in Port Harcourt sinde Friday, working leads provided by various agencies.

“Based on these leads, the IP-Lagos agents were able to locate Tata and take her into custody,” a press release by the Marshal’s Service said.

“When Jessica Tata chose to flee from the consequences of her actions that left four innocent children dead, we made her capture a top priority,” said Geoffrey Shank, the agency's acting assistant director of investigative operations. He thanked the service's deputies and other agencies for their work on the case.

“You cannot thumb your nose at the justice system, whether it be domestically or abroad,” said Elizabeth Saenz, U.S. marshal for the Southern District of Texas. “Justice will be served. Jessica Tata has learned this thanks to the global efforts of the many and unknown.”

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